From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 10:57:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA14486 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:57:44 -0800 Received: from uswat.advtech.uswest.com (firewall-user@uswat.advtech.uswest.com [130.13.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA14479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:57:41 -0800 Received: from westhub ([148.156.21.6]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA27810 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 11:57:05 -0700 (MST) Received: by westhub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.950111) Message-Id: Date: 8 Nov 1995 11:34:19 -0700 From: "Owen Newnan" Subject: modem lights To: "questions about FreeBSD" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 GM Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Subject: Time:11:38 AM OFFICE MEMO modem lights Date:11/8/95 "> 2. Is there a program that can display the status of your modem > (the most essential ones are: OH - if the modem is off-hook (i.e. > dialed out) or not, RD - data being received, TR - data being > sent)? I have a internal modem, and this would be a useful thing; > it's probably also useful for the laptop/PCMCIA crowd. Dunno, that's why I always get external modems." I believe most modems can be set in verbose mode (tracing state transitions) using secape sequences; maybe that would help?